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<div class="terms clearfix"><ul class="taxonomy-list"><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/1574">Wini Ashooh</a></li></ul></div><div class="terms clearfix"><ul class="taxonomy-list"><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/2717">History &amp; Historical Fiction</a></li><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/2778">Picture Books</a></li></ul></div><div class="terms clearfix"><ul class="taxonomy-list"><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/719">Ice Skating</a></li><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/1750">World War II -- fiction</a></li><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/3313">German occupation</a></li><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/3314">Netherlands</a></li><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/3315">juvenile fiction</a></li></ul></div><div class="terms clearfix"><ul class="taxonomy-list"><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/28">LibraryPoint Blog</a></li><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/2671">Shelf Life Blog</a></li><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/27">Book Buzz Blog</a></li><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/971">Kids Blog</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.librarypoint.org/sites/librarypoint.org/files/imagecache/the%20skating%20race.jpg" alt="The Greatest Skating Race: A World War II Story from the Netherlands" title="The Greatest Skating Race: A World War II Story from the Netherlands" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>It is 1941, and the German Army occupies The Netherlands.&nbsp; A young Dutch boy named Piet has been given the task of escorting two neighborhood children to safety in Brussels.&nbsp; <a href="http://ipac.librarypoint.org/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=129665R896AV9.758&amp;menu=search&amp;aspect=basic_search&amp;npp=10&amp;ipp=20&amp;spp=20&amp;profile=remote&amp;ri=2&amp;source=%7E%21horizon&amp;index=.GW&amp;term=greatest+skating+race&amp;aspect=basic_search#focus">The Greatest Skating Race: A World War II Story from the Netherlands</a>, by Louise Borden, is the exciting story of Piet Janssen.&nbsp; He live in the town of&nbsp;Sluis in the Netherlands.&nbsp; His town is on the border between The Netherlands and Brussels.&nbsp; During the winters there, it is so cold that the canals freeze and the ice is thick enough to skate on.&nbsp; In fact, skating is a form of transportation for many people in the Netherlands.</p>
<p>Piet loves to skate.&nbsp; He also idolizes a skater named <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pim_Mulier">Pim Mulier </a>who once skated through eleven towns.&nbsp; Many Dutch have skated through towns, but the route that Pim took has its own name, the Elfstedentocht <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfstedentocht">(the Eleven Towns Race)</a>.&nbsp; Piet has been training to duplicate this race and finish just like his idol Pim Mulier.&nbsp; But in December of 1941, many of the Dutch were concerned with much more than a race along the canals.&nbsp; Their country was occupied by Germany.&nbsp; Because of the war, many fathers were gone.&nbsp; They had joined the Allied forces in England.&nbsp;</p>
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